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  • Serves 6
  • 50 minutes
  • Difficulty Easy
  • 15 Ingredients

This is a healthy twist on a good old-fashioned family favourite recipe. It’s loaded with veggies as well, so is perfect for fussy eaters.


Ingredients (serves 6)

  • MEAT SAUCE
  • 600g very lean beef mince
  • ¾ cup carrot grated
  • ¾ cup zucchini grated
  • 1 small onion finely diced
  • ½ cup frozen peas
  • 1 x 420g can salt-reduced (condensed) tomato soup
  • 2 teaspoons salt-reduced beef stock powder
  • 2 tablespoons no-added-salt tomato paste
  • 3 cups cooked macaroni noodles
  • TOPPING
  • 1 tablespoon (15g) Flora Light® margarine
  • 3 tablespoons plain flour
  • 1½ cups skim milk
  • ¾ cup (75g) 30% reduced-fat tasty cheese freshly grated

Method

  1. Preheat oven 180ºC fan forced.
  2. Meat sauce: Cook mince in a large non-stick saucepan that has been coated with cooking spray. Drain liquid then return mince to pot.
  3. Add in carrots, zucchini, onion, peas and soup, cook 2 minutes stirring continuously. Add stock powder and tomato paste; cook a further 5 minutes stirring frequently.
  4. Fold in cooked macaroni noodles and mix together well. Pour mixture into a lasagne dish.
  5. Topping: Melt margarine in saucepan, add flour, cook 1 minute. Slowly add milk using a whisk to avoid lumps, stir continuously until boiling.
  6. Pour sauce over the meat, sprinkle with grated cheese. Bake 25-30 minutes or until top is golden brown.

Notes

For a lower fat count omit topping. This recipe is suitable to be frozen.

  • Great idea for those nights when you don’t have time to cook

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  • Great that it can go in the freezer

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  • A quick easy and simple family meal that everyone will love. Thanks so much for sharing.

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  • This looks yum and something I might make tonight.

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  • I do like the fact that it has a few veggies in it and is a family-friendly, easy mid week meal!

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  • Yum this looks great! Will definitely be trying this when the weather cools down a bit :)

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  • This looks great and lots of veggies too!

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  • Yum, this looks good and healthy too.

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  • Love recipes with hidden veggies in them for the kids

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  • Awesome thanks so much I’m gonna try this one next week.

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  • Im living on my own now and love anything I can cook up and then freeze in single packs.

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  • This looks like the macaroni I used to eat as a child when I was at pre school! It was one of my favourite dishes and I’d wish we could eat it everyday lol.
    Thank you so much for sharing, I’ll be making this for my toddler to try (but secretly for myself)!!!

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  • I love this recipe. My mum’s best friend use to make this all the time and I absolutely loved this. I always wondered what was in it. So simple and so delicious.

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  • I do love hiding lots of veggies into meals – my kids would definitely eat this happily. Thanks for sharing.

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  • Perfect winter dish it looks delicious

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